Well it's not like that. If you tried submitting celebrity gossip here you wouldn't get much traction to put it mildly. On the other hand a lot of blocked ques

Well it's not like that. If you tried submitting celebrity gossip here you wouldn't get much traction to put it mildly. On the other hand a lot of blocked questions on SO were very popular, people produced very valuable and detailed answers to them and they (and the questions) got a lot of upvotes. It's clearly a policy of blocking content the community is very interested in. Better analogy would be blocking politics at HN.